Licht24 PRO
Control software for relay boards and digital IO cards

Licht24 PRO gives you the control of arbitrary equipment, quick and comfortable with your PC.
Ideal for discos, stage, partyrooms, model railway or home automation use. It's a universal
control desk for your PC with various features.


To control the outputs you will find these functions ready:

Nonlocking key for tip-operation

Switch for ON/OFF-operation (Status-LED)

Emergency-stop-function

Flash with variable speed

Weekly automatic-timer with 1 sec resolution = max. 86400 switching commands /day and channel

Control alarms via system time or internal stopwatch feature.

Astro times: sunrise, noon and sunset times for timer usage

Randomizer optionally controls 1, 2, 3 or 4 outputs

999 programs with up to 99 steps, free to program!

Program- and random clock also music controlled

Command line feature

Pulse mode with adjustable delay for each channel (e.g. 2000ms for surge relais, or any off delay)


More Extras:

Inputs "bksoft 8 IO" card and "Velleman K8055" with toggle function (replace notching relays !!!)

Sound output on channel HIGH and LOW possible

Counter function on channel HIGH possible

Every channel can have it's individual marking

Informative status-display

Informative log files

Various skins selectable (112 different Surfaces)

English or German user adjustable interface

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Special functions:

Weekly automatic-timer
The integrated weekly timer offers you a wide range of possibilities, e.g. use your
stereo-set for an alarm-clock, switch on your coffee machine 10 mins before you
wake up, childproof lock to switch on the tv at wanted times and off later. Climate
control e.g. switch ventilators or heatings,... It does everything that an automatic
timer can do. Every channel has a extra graphical view for the alarm list entrys.
The alarms can be controlled via system clock or internal stopwatch.

Astro times
By petition of longitude and latitude as well as the time zone it possible to calculate the sunrise, noon, and the sunset times exactly for every day. These astro times can be used with the automatic timers.

Program-Mode
Within the program mode you can have up to 999 separate programs, every single
program can store a run of 99 steps. To program a run-light you simply set
channel 1 to high on step 1, channel 2 to high on step 2, channel 3 on step 3, aso.
Set the number of the last step and the program starts at the beginning again.
There are already 30 ready to use programs stored (No.1-30).

Randomized control
1-4 outputs can be controlled randomly via a predefined clock. Ideal to switch different
devices on and off randomly (eg. stage or discothek). Set the channel number that
should be the last one, e.g. to control only the first 8 channels randomly you can adjust
the max. random value to 8.

Music-Control
Additionally it is possible to have control of the next clock impulse via music. The
beat is filtered similar to a clavilux and a clock impulse is generated for each beat.
Just plug a music signal to your soundcard's LINE-IN port. This will produce a special
interesting effect.

Command line parameter
The program can be controlled also with command line parameters.
Therefore Licht24 can switch relay cards invisible in the background.
For instance: licht24pro.exe /CONRADSERIAL /1 /1000 switches the channel 1 of a
Conrad card for 1sec to HIGH, then to LOW again and exits after processing.

Instead of the time parameter you can use /ON or /OFF to switch the corresponding channel. For example: licht24pro.exe /CONRADSERIAL /1 /ON switches the channel 1 of a Conrad card permanently to HIGH. With this method only one channel can be controlled, all other channels are set to LOW! Since version 2.2.2.2 you can use the parameter /BUFFER to protect other channels to be reset while using the /ON or /OFF commands. Example: licht24pro.exe /CONRADSERIAL /1 /ON /BUFFER

To control more channels at one time use flags for the channel parameter. For example: licht24pro.exe /CONRADSERIAL /11000000 /ON switches the channel 1 + 2 of a Conrad card permanently to HIGH.

The command line parameters can be sent also as a message (WMCopyData) to Licht24 Pro. The Licht24 Pro software is running permanently and can receive WMCopyData commands. This way you can send also commands from your own software to Licht24 Pro. In the Licht24 Pro installations directory there is a tool which can send commands to Licht24 Pro. The tool is called sndmsg.exe and is executed like Licht24 pro with command line parameter, eg. sndmsg.exe /CONRADSERIAL /11000000 /ON switches the channel 1 + 2 of a Conrad card to HIGH.

Since version v2.3.2.6 there are special remote commands available:

/CMD_STOP	Stops the programm, sound and random control
/CMD_CLOSE	Closes Licht24 Pro
/CMD_RESETCLOSE	Closes Licht24 Pro and clears all outputs
/CMD_LOAD	Loads again the alarmlists
/CMD_CLOCKPROGRAM	Triggers the program control
/CMD_CLOCKRANDOM	Triggers the random control
/CMD_CLOCKFLASH	Triggers the flash control
/CMD_LOADSETTINGS1	Loads settings 1
up to
/CMD_LOADSETTINGS16	Loads settings 16

Example: "sendmsg.exe /CMD_CLOSE" closes Licht24 Pro

Sound output
By means of individual sound output for every channel it is now possible to play arbitrary sounds on HIGH and/or LOW. Using different sounds the corresponding channel can be detected acoustically or being provided a soundtrack for. The 2 default sounds which are included with Licht24 pro can play a higher sound on HIGH as well as a lower sound on LOW (high.wav and low.wav). By the use of speech files a function can explicit be announced, eg. "light on" and "light off" and so on. In the area of model railroad control different locomotive sounds or announcements can be played when entering the station.

Counter function
With the counter function every HIGH switch can be counted for every channel.

Pulse mode
Using the "Impulse-mode" it is possible to control notching relays. That means that only short impulses are issued on the respective outputs. The pulse length is adjustable separately for each channel. With this function it is also possible to realize switching off delays up to 49 days. The button can be excluded from the pulse mode control for each channel, and thus used to control the brightness of a touch dimmer switch.

You can find more informations in the Licht24 PRO manual and in the Licht24 PRO Forum